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ActiveCampaign is a Chicago-based software company that provides a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for customer experience automation. Its tools support autonomous marketing workflows, CRM, email marketing, SMS marketing, and WhatsApp messaging.

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History

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ActiveCampaign was founded in 2003 by Jason VandeBoom as an on-premises email marketing provider.[2] During the early 2010s, the company migrated to a subscription-based SaaS model.[2][3]

ActiveCampaign received its first external investment in 2016, a US$20 million Series A led by Silversmith Capital Partners.[4] A US$100 million Series B followed in January 2020, led by Susquehanna Growth Equity.[5][6] In April 2021, the company raised a US$240 million Series C led by Tiger Global, valuing the business at more than US$3 billion.[7]

Operations

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ActiveCampaign is a privately held company headquartered in Chicago.[7] It also maintains offices in Dublin, Ireland;[8] Florianópolis, Brazil;[9] Kraków, Poland;[10] and Heredia, Costa Rica.[11]

According to Origin by Dialectica, ActiveCampaign employed approximately 854 full-time staff in 2024 and remains Private equity backed, with Tiger Global Management among its institutional investors.[1]

Software

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ActiveCampaign's platform combines email marketing, marketing automation, and sales CRM.[12][13] The company introduced generative AI capabilities in 2023.[14]

Competitors

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ActiveCampaign competes within the marketing automation and CRM sector against platforms such as Salesforce, Klaviyo, HubSpot, Mailchimp (operated by Intuit), Yotpo, Constant Contact, Drip, Marketo (part of Adobe), Attentive, Campaign Monitor, and Omnisend.[1]

Acquisitions

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  • In May 2022, ActiveCampaign acquired Postmark, a transactional email delivery service, and the associated DMARC Digests tool.[15]
  • In October 2023, it acquired Onesend, an Australian provider of marketing software for multi-location businesses.[16]
  • In April 2025, it acquired Hilos, a WhatsApp messaging automation company based in Mexico City.[17][18]

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ActiveCampaign

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ActiveCampaign is an American marketing automation company that provides a automation platform, enabling businesses to create personalized campaigns, manage customer relationships through built-in CRM tools, and automate sales processes with AI-driven features such as intelligent segmentation, predictive sending, and multi-channel messaging including and . Founded in 2003 by Jason VandeBoom in , , the company has grown into a global operation with over 800 employees across offices in the United States, , , and the region, serving more than 180,000 customers in over 170 countries. At its core, ActiveCampaign's platform integrates with sales CRM to facilitate customer , allowing users to build automated workflows, track customer behavior, and generate insights through unified reporting and AI agents that handle tasks like and performance optimization, including recent advancements in autonomous marketing and AI integrations. The company's evolution has emphasized accessibility for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), offering scalable plans starting from basic tools to enterprise-level bundles that include advanced automation and integrations with over 1,000 third-party applications, such as and . ActiveCampaign powers billions of customer interactions weekly and has earned high , with over 26,000 positive reviews highlighting its ease of use and ROI potential, while maintaining a private valuation estimated at $3 billion as of its 2021 funding round.

Company History

Founding and Early Development

ActiveCampaign was founded in 2003 by Jason VandeBoom in , , initially as a consulting business offering , coding, and solutions. VandeBoom, a self-taught software engineer who began coding as a child and consulting for small businesses during high school, started the company with just $5,000 to fund his fine arts degree while shifting focus to technology services. The venture began as a , providing custom solutions to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) manage customer communications affordably. In its early years, ActiveCampaign operated primarily through on-premise software that delivered multiple tools, including custom campaigns, which clients could install and manage on their own servers. This model addressed the high costs of enterprise tools like Lyris by offering simpler, lower-priced alternatives starting around $99 per license, targeting SMBs underserved by complex systems. The company remained bootstrapped, achieving cash flow positivity from inception without external funding, and grew organically through affiliates and resellers, reaching over $1 million in annual revenue by the mid-2000s. By the mid-2000s, ActiveCampaign shifted from a services-based consulting model to focused product development, custom solutions into scalable software emphasizing affordable for small businesses. This transition involved consolidating early offerings into a core product, moving away from one-off custom work to perpetual licenses that enabled steady growth. The emphasis on accessibility laid the foundation for later evolution into a subscription-based SaaS platform.

Growth and Milestones

In the early , ActiveCampaign shifted from an on-premise software model to a cloud-based SaaS platform, which facilitated scalable and tailored for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). This transition, completed around 2013, allowed the company to expand its reach by offering subscription-based access that reduced setup barriers for users in sectors like and digital agencies. ActiveCampaign achieved significant revenue milestones through bootstrapping, reaching $40 million in annual revenue by 2017 while maintaining profitability without external venture capital. The company sustained this self-funded growth, scaling to $90 million by 2020 and $290.5 million by 2024, driven by organic expansion and a focus on SMB customers. In 2021, ActiveCampaign secured $240 million in Series C funding led by Tiger Global Management, valuing the company at over $3 billion and supporting further acceleration. By 2025, ActiveCampaign had grown its customer base to over 180,000 businesses worldwide, with a strong emphasis on serving SMBs in , agencies, and related fields. Key product launches contributed to this expansion, including the integration of CRM capabilities in the mid-2010s, which enhanced sales , and multi-channel support features introduced around 2020, enabling seamless , , and site messaging. These developments drove consistent increases in annual recurring revenue, underscoring ActiveCampaign's evolution into a leading SaaS provider for .

Leadership and Funding

ActiveCampaign was founded in 2003 by Jason VandeBoom, who has served as its CEO since inception, bringing a background in and a focus on customer-centric product innovation to drive the company's growth. VandeBoom initially bootstrapped the business through consulting services while pursuing a fine arts degree, emphasizing practical, user-driven solutions in automation from the outset. As of 2025, ActiveCampaign's executive team includes several key leaders with deep expertise in marketing technology. Tony Newcome serves as , overseeing product engineering and innovation in tools. Amy Kilpatrick joined as in 2024, bringing prior experience from martech firms like Terminus to enhance global branding and . Carine Roman was appointed in the same year, with a track record in sales leadership at companies such as , focusing on scaling revenue operations. Simon Malkowski acts as , bridging strategy and execution with his background in operations at high-growth SaaS firms. Many of these roles reflect internal promotions or hires from within the martech , underscoring the company's emphasis on specialized talent to support its platform evolution. The company bootstrapped for its first 13 years until raising $20 million in a in October 2016 led by Capital Partners. In January 2020, it secured a $100 million Series B round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity to fuel expansion. This was followed by a $240 million Series C in April 2021, led by with participation from Dragoneer Investment Group, valuing the company at $3 billion and enabling accelerated product development while retaining founder control. These minority investments marked a shift from self-funding but preserved the company's debt-free, low-dilution approach. The company's financial strategy prioritizes sustainability, with steady organic growth and avoidance of heavy debt or equity dilution. This self-sustaining model has supported consistent profitability since early , allowing reinvestment in core operations without reliance on frequent funding rounds.

Products and Platform

Core Marketing Automation Features

ActiveCampaign's core features provide businesses with tools to streamline -based and nurture leads through automated processes. At the foundation is a drag-and-drop campaign builder that enables users to create newsletters and promotional emails without coding expertise. This interface supports to compare variations of subject lines, content, or designs, helping optimize open and click-through rates. options allow dynamic insertion of contact data, such as names or past behaviors, to tailor messages for higher relevance. The platform's multi-step workflows form the backbone of its capabilities, allowing users to design complex journeys that respond to specific events. These workflows begin with triggers, such as site visits, form submissions, or purchases, which initiate a sequence of actions like sending targeted emails or applying tags to contacts for further categorization. Branching logic enables paths to adapt based on user interactions—for instance, directing high-engagement contacts to nurture sequences while low-engagement ones receive re-engagement prompts—ensuring scalable, behavior-driven communication. Segmentation and list management tools facilitate precise audience targeting, dividing contacts into groups based on demographics, engagement levels, or custom fields like purchase history or preferences. Users can create segments dynamically using a visual builder that applies conditions to s or tags, enabling hyper-targeted campaigns that boost deliverability and response rates. Custom fields store additional data points, such as or interests, which integrate seamlessly into segmentation rules for refined list management. Integrations with e-commerce platforms, particularly , extend these features to support revenue-focused automations like abandoned cart recovery and lead scoring. The two-way sync imports purchase and cart data directly into ActiveCampaign, triggering workflows that send reminder emails to recover lost sales. Lead scoring assigns points to contacts based on behaviors like cart additions or site revisits, prioritizing high-value prospects for automated follow-ups within email sequences.

CRM and Sales Tools

ActiveCampaign's built-in CRM provides comprehensive tools for managing customer relationships and streamlining processes, enabling teams to organize contact data, track deals, and automate workflows without relying on external software. Contact management features allow users to segment contacts for targeted outreach, add and edit details through custom fields that capture specific information like purchase history or preferences, and maintain clean lists to ensure accurate data handling. These capabilities support personalized interactions by organizing customer information in a centralized , facilitating collaboration between and teams. Deal pipelines in the CRM offer visual, customizable workflows to monitor opportunities from initial lead to closure, with stages that can be tailored to match a business's . Task automation enhances efficiency by automatically creating deals upon lead qualification, assigning them to members, and generating personalized to-do lists for follow-up actions, reducing manual oversight and speeding up deal progression. engagement tools include automated follow-ups that trigger personalized one-on-one s or notifications based on customer behaviors, such as form submissions or site visits, helping nurture leads through the . Win probability scoring assigns a percentage to each deal, calculated based on historical data from won deals in the , such as tasks created, stages entered, and contact attributes like domains. integrations, such as with or , enable seamless scheduling by automatically creating or updating deals when meetings are booked, changed, or canceled, integrating activities directly into the CRM. Lead scoring algorithms evaluate prospects using behavioral , such as opens, clicks, visits, and custom event interactions, to assign scores that identify and prioritize high-value leads in real-time. This allows teams to focus efforts on qualified prospects by setting thresholds that automatically add top-scored leads to pipelines or trigger relevant automations. Reporting tools within the CRM include customizable dashboards that visualize performance metrics, such as conversion rates from leads to closed deals and attribution linking outcomes to specific campaigns or touchpoints. The conversion attribution report tracks events over defined windows, like seven days, to attribute to and efforts, while exportable analytics enable export for further analysis in external tools. These features provide actionable insights into funnel efficiency and ROI without requiring advanced technical setup.

Communication and AI Capabilities

ActiveCampaign supports multi-channel communication through integrations for , , and transactional emails, enabling businesses to orchestrate cross-channel campaigns that engage customers across preferred platforms. capabilities allow for broadcast messaging and triggers, with compliance features ensuring proper opt-in processes. Following the acquisition of in April 2025, integration became native, permitting personalized chat campaigns, automated flows, and scaled messaging directly within the platform. Transactional emails, such as order confirmations and password resets, are handled via the integration, which personalizes content using contact data and triggers sends from automations. In May 2025, ActiveCampaign launched Active Intelligence, a suite comprising more than 12 autonomous AI agents designed to streamline tasks by leveraging billions of points for strategy formulation and execution. As of October 2025, Active Intelligence became available to all customer plans. The suite has expanded to more than 32 AI agents. On November 17, 2025, ActiveCampaign launched the first Autonomous Connector for Anthropic's Claude, further advancing AI-driven . These agents handle content generation, send-time optimization through predictive sending that analyzes patterns at the level, and product recommendations tailored to user behavior. Additional AI features include subject line , where generative tools create compelling open-rate-optimized lines, and that builds layouts, headlines, and images based on campaign goals. Predictive segmentation employs on user data to suggest dynamic audience groups and conditional content, enhancing without manual configuration. In-context AI further advances real-time personalization by generating contextual responses and adapting content during interactions, as demonstrated in the Fall 2025 Innovation Keynote, which highlighted its role in enabling autonomous marketing workflows free from constant oversight. This integration allows AI to operate seamlessly across channels, optimizing engagement in dynamic environments.

Business Developments

Acquisitions

ActiveCampaign has pursued strategic acquisitions to bolster its platform, focusing on enhancements in deliverability, multi-location management, and conversational messaging capabilities. In May 2022, the company acquired , a transactional delivery service, alongside Digests, an monitoring tool, to improve reliability and compliance for users. These integrations allowed ActiveCampaign to embed advanced infrastructure directly into its core platform, reducing dependency on third-party services and enhancing overall message deliverability rates. Building on this foundation, ActiveCampaign expanded its offerings for enterprise-scale operations with the October 2023 acquisition of Onesend, an Australian platform specializing in franchise and multi-location marketing tools. Onesend's features, including centralized and reseller agency support, were incorporated to enable businesses with distributed locations to maintain consistent messaging while scaling campaigns efficiently. This move addressed gaps in handling complex, decentralized marketing needs, allowing ActiveCampaign customers to automate workflows across multiple sites without fragmented tools. In April 2025, ActiveCampaign further diversified its communication channels by acquiring , a Mexico City-based startup focused on automation for personalized customer interactions. 's technology enables one-on-one messaging automation and unified control over cross-channel communications, integrating seamlessly to support global businesses in leveraging messaging apps alongside and . Collectively, these acquisitions reflect a deliberate strategy to enhance platform reliability in handling, for multi-entity operations, and adaptability to emerging digital channels like .

Global Expansion and Operations

ActiveCampaign maintains its headquarters in , , at 1 North Dearborn Street, with additional offices spanning (including Heredia, , and Florianópolis, Brazil), (such as Dublin, Ireland, and Kraków, Poland), and the Asia-Pacific region (including Sydney, Australia) to support its international operations. In January 2024, the company expanded its footprint by officially opening a hub in Heredia, , through a $4 million investment aimed at bolstering engineering and customer support teams, particularly for Spanish-speaking markets in . Other key locations include Indianapolis, Indiana, enabling localized expertise and efficient service delivery across diverse geographies. The platform serves a global customer base exceeding 180,000 businesses across more than 170 countries as of 2025, with a strong emphasis on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seeking scalable solutions. To accommodate regional needs, ActiveCampaign offers localized features, such as enhanced support for European users through GDPR compliance and Latin American markets via dedicated on-site resources. This is facilitated by multi-regional data centers that ensure data residency options and adherence to international privacy standards, including GDPR and SOC 2 certifications. Operationally, ActiveCampaign supports over 800 team members worldwide and powers more than 4 billion customer interactions weekly, underscoring its scale in serving SMBs through streamlined and CRM tools. The company fosters growth via partnerships with over 700 agencies, e-commerce platforms like , and other integrations, enabling collaborative ecosystems for its users. ActiveCampaign operates as a remote-first , promoting flexible work arrangements, quarterly stipends, and virtual events to maintain a collaborative culture among its distributed workforce. Employee development is prioritized through programs like leadership training, via the Aspiring Leadership initiative, and an annual Career Month for goal-setting and advancement. Sustainability efforts include the ActiveImpact program, which provides paid volunteer time off and aligns with broader environmental goals through efficient, bootstrapped operations that have sustained profitability without early-stage venture funding.

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